A total of 1.75 lakh urban poor population of Kohima and Dimapur districts of Nagaland will be covered under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), a minister said.
Dimapur would cover 98,096 population while in Kohima 77,030 people would come under this NUHM mission, Nagaland Minister for Health and Family Welfare Imkong L Imchen said during the launch of the NUHM here today.
An amount of Rs one crore has been earmarked for implementation of NUHM in Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung districts for the last three months of the year 2013-2014, Imchen said.
The urban growth has led to the rapid increase in the number of urban poor population, many of whom live in slums and other squatter settlements, the minister said.
The NUHM is launched in order to effectively address the health concerns of the urban poor population, he said, adding that the initiatives under the NUHM will seek to strengthen the public health trust in urban local bodies, besides providing for cost of health care for the urban poor.
